Lead Platform Engineer, Identity & Access
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WebflowIdentity and access management
Remote-first (United States)Full-TimeLead
SalaryZone A: $232,000 - 290,000; Zone B: $217,600 - 272,000; Zone C: $204,800 - 256,000 (United States; USD). This role is also eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program. Target amounts are a percentage of base salary and vary by career level.
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum of 8 years in identity, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Required Skills
- PythonTerraform
Requirements
- Have a minimum of 8 years in identity, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Have owned a workforce identity platform at meaningful scale.
- Bring hands-on experience architecting an enterprise identity provider; Okta is strongly preferred.
- Be fluent in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM, including debugging at the token and assertion level.
- Have experience with identity governance, including RBAC design, HRIS-driven lifecycle automation, and audit requirements.
- Have a strong grounding in Zero Trust, identity-based attacks, device trust, and non-human identity security.
- Have scripting ability in Python, JavaScript, or a similar language.
- Have infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform.
- Be able to communicate clearly with senior and executive audiences and drive architecture decisions.
- Nice to have: experience governing identities for AI tools and agents, and Okta certifications.
Responsibilities
- Own workforce identity architecture and the roadmap, including build-versus-buy decisions, with Okta as the core platform.
- Establish Okta configuration standards, hardening, change control, and configuration as code using Terraform, APIs, Okta Workflows, or scripts.
- Automate the identity lifecycle from joiner to leaver using the HRIS as the source of truth and SCIM for downstream applications.
- Build application onboarding patterns, provisioning templates, and federated access to cloud and source control platforms.
- Design RBAC, least-privilege controls, request and approval workflows, and access reviews, with automated audit evidence.
- Strengthen access using phishing-resistant MFA, device trust, risk signals, and governance for non-human identities.
- Stream identity telemetry to Security and serve as the primary responder for identity incidents and outages.
- Provide on-call coverage for critical identity services, conduct post-incident reviews, and analyze logs with Security.
- Manage the Okta vendor relationship, licensing, and cost.
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